Can you determine the bandwidth being consumed by each user and/or apply restrictions?
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Sorry but no. You can only apply QOS rules and reserve bandwidth for specific clients.
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No - Peplink Balance 30 does not permit bandwidth throttling based on users or LAN IPs. However, according to Peplink's website, higher end models (305/380/580/...) have this functionality to define User Groups and to control the Bandwidth (User Groups Bandwidth Control).
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This is an "unmanaged" switch so each desktop you wire into this switch will each get their own fair share of the upstream bandwidth depending on what each Desktop is doing. To do Quality of Service (QoS) which is what you are asking about you'll need a more advanced "managed" switch (or router/switch) that costs quite a bit more money and allows you to limit a given port's bandwidth.
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You can see all the computers - regardless of which network they come in on. But I cannot see how to monitor each network individually.
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Not a complete answer - In practice I have not seen a limit but I doubt I'm rarely up that high unless torrenting a linux iso. Looking in the manual does not reveal that spec. The following page does not specify, but gives an idea - http://cs.peplink.com/balance/tech-spec/ I would recommend calling them and asking. Perhaps you could post the answer?
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It is simply an empty enclosure, so whatever drive you put in it determines usage. I pulled an old hard drive from an old computer.
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Power Consumption Operational 4.1 Watts source: http://www.cnet.com/products/tp-link-tl-r480t-plus-router-desktop/specs/
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Most switches including this one try to balance the load evenly. The more devices that are trying to use bandwidth the slower they will all perform.
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Hi thundercade, you should have no problems at all with multiple users streaming video, as long as the bandwidth supplied by your ISP can handle it!
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Yup, Even though that is backwards to what the normal requirements are..... Usually the server needs the highest bandwidth.
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Yes, it will support that bandwidth! Here are the specs you are interested in: Firewall inspection throughput: 500 Mbps Full DPI throughput: 60 Mbps Application inspection throughput: 110 Mbps IPS throughput: 110 Mbps Anti-malware inspection throughput: 70 Mbps More details can be found here: http://www.sonicwall.com/us/en/products/TZ-Series.html#tab=comparea
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You'll need to have a really strong feeder signal from your router. It says 70%, but you're going to need more like 85%
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How will you compare the browsing speed to that of a normal wifi from a desktop or laptop?
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It is a tap and to the best on my knowledge does not filter any traffic. If it is filtering BPDU packets, i am not aware that it does. I do not have it setup in a situation to look for them.
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You cant... Just put a password for it. And then create 2 user names for the 2.4 G Hz and 5 G Hz bands for guests aand yourself. Hope this helps!
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Yes - it is possible to have load balancing using both connections automatically at the same time. I have a 60Mbps and 8Mbps connection, and Peplink balances traffic very well across the two connections. Bandwidth does not get aggregated as each internet connection will go via one WAN or the other (not both simultaneously). Peplink can select the WAN through with each connection goes through based one of the 5 algorithms you select - Weighted Balance/ Persistence/ Enforced/ Priority/ Overflow. Higher end models add a couple more algorithms - Least Used and Lowest Latency, but I find that for my use Weighted Balance works best. You can also set up specific rules so that connections matching those rules use a different algorithm than the default - it is all very easy to configure, flexible, and rock solid.
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You could load balance traffic and provide redundancy using two switches. In case of vmware load balancing traffic is critical.